- Fiction, Fantasy
The world of unknowable objects - those seemingly ordinary items that most people have no idea possess magical powers - has been quiet for years... Indeed, there is a secret society whose sole purpose is to gather these artefacts together, and keep them safe from the outside world - and the outside world safe from them.
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Contemporary, classical in form, grave and earnest.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Gareth Brown
- First published
- 2025
- Pages
- 336
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers, Transworld Publishers Limited
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781787637269
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Bio from *The Book of Doors*: Born in Falkirk, Gareth Brown has been writing in his spare time since he was a teenager. For the last two decades he has worked in the UK Civil Service and is currently Director of Screening for NHS Scotland. An inveterate traveller, he particularly relishes the experience of arriving somewhere new - those first few hours of culture shock, noise and bustle in an unfamiliar city - a passion that influence the writing of his first novel, the international bestseller *The Book of Doors*. Gareth lives with his wife and two Skyle terriers near Edinburgh.
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